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About the UK House Price Index

An overview of the data available, sources, release dates, exclusions and the data contributors.

Comparing house price indices in the UK

This guide compares the source data, index and methods of the different house price index measures highlighting the strengths and limitations to aid users in choosing the most appropriate index for their requirements.

UK House Price Index Quality Assurance of Administrative Data

We set out the steps we have taken to quality assure our data, and our assessment of each source).

Quality and methodology

Information includes, for example, the strengths and limitations of the data and uses of the data.

Access the data

23 May 2018
To reflect our current service standards, we have updated: section 4.4 of 'About the UK House Price Index', sections 1 and 4 of 'UK House Price Index Quality Assurance of Administrative Data' and section 2.2 of 'Quality and methodology' documents.

20 April 2018
Information about "Improvement to the calculation of provisional estimates within the UK HPI" replaced by the "Quality and methodology" document. Guidance ‘About the UK House Price Index’ updated with a section 1.2 added. Section 4, section 4.1 and 4.2 also updated to reflect the new quality and methodology document.

13 February 2018
Section 1.1 updated to reflect the removal of the UK HPI experimental status. Section 10: the Office for National Statistics announced publication changes for prices statistics from April 2018. We have updated the UK HPI publication calendar to reflect this.

16 January 2018
Section 9 updated, due to additional data being made available via the UK House Price Index search tool http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi

5 December 2017
Improvement to the calculation of provisional estimates within the UK House Price Index.

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